投稿者: Helen Davidson
The ‘Hong Kong 12’ – arrested for allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan – have become the latest flashpoint for protestersThe family of a Hong Kong activist detained in China after allegedly attempting to flee to Taiwan by speedboat say they have had no c…
France records more than 14,000 new Covid cases; Colombia passes 800,000 infections; Saudi Arabia plans to resume tourist visas by early 2021. Follow latest updatesBoris Johnson faces revolt over forcing through Covid measures Australia: ‘We should not…
Fewer mosques in China’s western region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, says thinktankThousands of mosques in Xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed in just three years, leaving fewer in the region than at any time since the Cultural R…
Plea to remember ‘birds do not know borders’ amid spat between Taiwan’s largest bird conservation group and UK-based BirdLife InternationalBirdwatchers around the world may have to decide whether they are hawks or doves when it comes to the thorny issu…
Chen Qiushi who reported on Chinese response to virus believed to be in detentionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared in February while reporting on China’s early response to the coron…
Wong released on bail after arrest over 2019 protest and for allegedly violating anti-mask lawHong Kong authorities have arrested Joshua Wong over a 2019 protest and for allegedly violating an anti-mask law which courts have since found partially uncon…
Hamilton says ban is ‘retaliation’ after Australia revoked visas of Chinese academics Chen Hong and Li JianjunChina has banned Australian academic Clive Hamilton and researcher Alex Joske from entering the country, with state media dubbing the pair “an…
Experts say new policy enables government to decide who is a journalist and curbs power of student and online journalismHong Kong authorities have moved to further constrain the city’s free press with an announcement by police that they would no longer…
Beijing white paper says an average of 1.29 million workers a year have gone through ‘vocational training’ between 2014 and 2019The Chinese Communist party government has defended its system of internment camps for Uighur and other ethnic minorities in…
Colonial-era penal code used as Tam Tak-chi’s alleged offences took place before new national security law was imposedAn activist who was the first person to be charged with sedition in Hong Kong since 1997 has been denied bail before his trial for “ut…
Revival prompts calls to divert boats to help protect native Indo-Pacific humpbacksCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLarge numbers of dolphins returned to Hong Kong waters within weeks of the Covid-19 crisis shutting down high…
Competing teams have both completed trips to the summit but plans have been disrupted by the pandemicSome time in the near future – after a wait of a decade – the world will learn the new height of Mount Everest.China and Nepal have teamed up to measur…
Embassy claims anti-China hackers behind ‘vicious attack’ on Liu Xiaoming’s accountChina’s UK embassy has demanded Twitter carry out a “thorough” investigation and reserved the right to take further action after its ambassador’s account liked a pornogr…
Reporting in China has historically been difficult, but Beijing is now using journalists to retaliate against governments with whom it disagreesLast Wednesday in the middle of the night, Australian reporters Bill Birtles in Beijing and Mike Smith in Sh…
Foreign ministry spokesman defends questioning of Australian journalists Bill Birtles and Mike SmithAustralian news anchor Cheng Lei was arrested in Beijing on national security grounds last month, China’s foreign ministry spokesman has revealed, speak…